netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Add sysfs attribute to prevent PHY suspend

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Message-Id: <20140309.203001.1318893833441564547.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com
Cc:	rob@...dley.net, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Add sysfs attribute to prevent PHY suspend

From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:25:24 +0100

> There is no way to determine if a bootloader is broken or not. The
> sysfs knob allows to provide a use case based decision. Of course,
> we can invent some freaky device tree property but that the DT
> maintainers will not like either.

My point is that whatever mechanism is used to "decide" that the sysfs
knob gets set, can also be used to "decide" that a DT property is
instantiated in the device tree.
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